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From: Dan Cross tenser@hur...
Subject: [9fans] time size
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 19:56:18 -0500 (EST)

In article <199901141623.LAA26240@cse...> you write:
>I'ld rather go to long long though its more painful. That way,
>as dmr points out, dates before the epoch are still representable
>as negative numbers.  Going to ulong makes a good chunk of my
>life unrepresentable.  Of course, I'll be dead by 2038 and I don't
>have any kids so what do I care...

What, you're that old?

>We could always bring back pdp10's and their 36 bit ints.

Were you FISHing for a flame there?  I think you got a....
Nibble.  And maybe four bytes.

	- Dan C.